Sort CSV based on a certain column?

Question

I\'m sure I\'ve done this in the past and there is something small I\'m forgetting, but how can I sort a CSV file on a certain column? I\'m interested in answers with and wi

Answer 1

When you provide your own comparison code, you can sort on anything. Just extract the desired element with a regex, or probably a split in this case, and then compare on that. If you have a lot of elements, I would parse the data into a list of lists and then the comparison code can access it without parsing. That would eliminate parsing the same row over and over as it's compared with other rows.